Multi-wavelength analytical ultracentrifugation of human serum albumin complexed with porphyrin
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Date
2018
Authors
Johnson, Courtney N.
Gorbet, Gary E.
Ramsower, Heidi
Urquidi, Julio
Brancaleon, Lorenzo
Demeler, Borries
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Springer
Abstract
The new Beckman Coulter Optima AUC instrument, which features multi-wavelength detection that couples the hydro-
dynamic separation of colloidal mixtures to spectral deconvolution of interacting and non-interacting solutes present in
a mixture, was used to analyze the composition of human serum albumin (HSA) bound to metallo-protoporphyrin. We
present new methods implemented in UltraScan that permit Optima AUC-derived multi-wavelength data to be spectrally
decomposed in the same fashion as has been made possible for the Cölfen detector earlier. We demonstrate this approach
by spectrally separating sedimentation velocity experimental data from mixtures of apo-HSA and HSA complexed to dif-
ferent metallo-protoporphyrins. We further demonstrate how multi-wavelength AUC can accurately recover percentages of
metallo-protoporphyrin-bound HSA and apo-HSA from mixtures and how multi-wavelength AUC permits the calculation of
molar extinction coefficients for porphyrins bound to HSA. The presented method has broad applicability to other complex
systems where mixtures of molecules with different spectral properties need to be characterized.
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Accepted author manuscript
Keywords
Multi-wavelength analytical ultracentrifugation , UltraScan , Spectral analysis , Pophyrin , Human serum ablumin
Citation
Johnson, C. N., Gorbet, G. E., Ramsower, H., Urquidi, J., Brancaleon, L., & Demeler, B. (2018). Multi-wavelength analytical ultracentrifugation of human serum albumin complexed with porphyrin. European Biophysics Journal, 47(7), 789-797. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-018-1301-7